Truck driver facing jail for driving while disqualified in wake of fatal crash

By Loukas FountenUpdated
Mon 18 Aug 2014, 5:28 PM AEST

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Errol Cain has admitted breaching his good behaviour bond.

A truck driver handed a suspended sentence over a fatal crash on a freeway near Adelaide may face prison after being caught driving while disqualified.

Errol David Cain, 70, was given a three-month suspended sentence and disqualified from driving in 2012 after his semi-trailer crashed into a car parked in the emergency lane of the South Eastern Freeway near the Hahndorf turn-off in the Adelaide Hills.

That smash four years ago killed 43-year-old Linda Carter.

It was alleged Cain fell asleep at the wheel, but a court ruled that while Cain would have been tired it was his failure to deal appropriately with the rising sun that led to the fatal crash.

He was found guilty of driving without due care, given a two-year good behaviour bond and disqualified from driving for 10 months.

In the latest proceedings in the Adelaide District Court, Cain admitted breaching his bond.

The court was told he drove while disqualified at Lameroo in February last year, and also breached the terms of his firearms licence.